EOI Intermediate Level: Fwd: Class summary 9th December

Thanks, Jesús.

Watch out for the past tense!!!

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Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Class summary 9th December
To: jlmoises.skyline@gmail.com
Cc: eoi-english-2013-ni2c@googlegroups.com

Hi guys

In the last class -day [or "day of class"] we -talk +talkED about medical -test +tests: e.g. who had done some? for or against -of it?

Then we saw a video about Personalized Medicine in TED webside. This is the link if you want to see it:

We -talk +talkED about it and -learn +learnED these vocabulary and useful expressions:

breakthrough= progreso científico.

it fails more often than it succeeds= falla mas que acierta.

R&D= Research & Development. (I+D).

Lung= pulmón.

mimic= imitar.

yuck: expresión de asco (snot= moco).

guess what they don´t= oposición. [ejemplo]

It´s nothing like what...= no tiene nada que ver que...

Howewer, more often than not, animal models fail to predict...= la mayoria de las veces...

build a engineer a home way from home for the cells

mechanical strain= tensión mecánica.

beating= latido.

and away/off you go= y listo

fatal= deadly= mortal.

illness= diseases( mas genérica)= enfermedad.

a full-blown asthma attack= un ataque de asma en toda regla, totalmente desarrollado.

We +were asked about:

- CHIP WORK: air channel, blood channel, -vacumm +vacuum channel...

- BODY ORGANS: lung (pulmón), intestine/gut (intestino/tripas), liver (hígado), kidney (riñón), bone marrow (médula osea), heart (corazón).

- DISEASES: bronchitis, fibrosis, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, ebola, sars..

- WHAT ARE DIFFICULTIES -INTERESTING +[in testing] DRUGS FOR CHILDREN?

- ULTIMATE ADVANTAGE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL.

Finally, in page 26, we -talk +talkED about MISHAPS (CONTRATIEMPOS)/ BLUNDER (metedura de pata) at the end of the class.

SEE YOU TOMORROW, BYE. JESUS.

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EOI Intermediate Level